Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
From: Vahric MUHTARYAN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Everybody , I think too many people know too many appliance choosing freebsd for OS, also they are hardening FreeBSD and specialize for they works . Anybody know or Did this like hardening on FreeBSD for getting better performans, I'm

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
You are going to have to trim numbers of messages before you get to SpamAssassin, I am afraid. Is this number after any greylisting you may have operational? If not then do look into greylisting. It is a very powerful technique to prefilter your incoming email at the connection level. If the

Re: hardening FreeBSD for Spamassassin

2005-12-07 Thread jdow
From: Alex Zbyslaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] jdow wrote: http://www.surl.org/. You mean http://www.surbl.org/ The other URL works but isn't very useful :-) I did indeed mess up and leave out the b. Mea culpa. {^_^} ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: 5.4 vs. 6.0

2005-12-10 Thread jdow
From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10 Dec Nicklas B. Westerlund wrote: Sasa Stupar wrote: Can someone tell me in plain words what will I gain if I upgrade my server from 5.4 to 6.0? Better sleep during nights. ;-) 6.x is the future :) I realize this is neither the L-word OS or

[OT] age Re: Slices

2005-12-12 Thread jdow
From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another thing for your information: I'm almost 56 years and for me it is fun to learn. Great to hear that. A lot of people give up on learning new things much much earlier. I suspect you'll find that the BSD and Linux lists will have more people of

Re: AND COBOL

2006-03-07 Thread jdow
From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give the poor guy a break; he's a COBOL programmer, so he's used to thinking and typing in all-caps :-) And just think, both COBOL and AOL end in OL. I wonder if there is a relationship? Exit stage left FAST--{O,o}

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread jdow
From: Patrick Bowen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 12:05:35 -0800, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have never been on a list from which I have received as much help as this one, which raises a question for me. I would like to thank the people who post questions to my answers,

Re: sshd BREAKIN ?

2006-03-30 Thread jdow
From: Tang Ho Yim [EMAIL PROTECTED] I got a error messages from /var/log/auth.log which is about sshd.. .sshd : reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for core-01.148.rdcw.com failed - POSSIBLE BREAKIN ATTEMPT ! all my sshd_config is default setting except I have change to

Re: Award BIOS Upgrade Fees - Slightly Offtopic

2006-04-05 Thread jdow
What motherboard manufacturer? I think it is time to boycott that one. {^_^} - Original Message - From: Thompson, Jimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] I just encountered what I consider to be a totally outrageous problem. I've got a system with a BIOS issue. The motherboard maker has decided to

Re: Proper Method of Time Sync?

2006-04-14 Thread jdow
From: RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday 14 April 2006 16:53, Dan Nelson wrote: ntpd takes a while to sync up and by default won't adjust the clock if it's more than 1000 seconds off, so it's a good idea to enable ntpdate as well. What bothers me about that is that ntpdate uses a single server

Re: Simluating a satellite connection using dummynet?

2006-04-23 Thread jdow
From: Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Busarow wrote: On Apr 22, 2006, at 9:40 PM, Philip Hallstrom wrote: Hi all - Odd question for you. I have the opportunity to work from home, but it would require using a sat internet connection (no cable or dsl anywhere close). I've been

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine:clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread jdow
From: John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Saturday 29 April 2006 09:06, Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows

Re: Antivirus to scan files before going onto a Windows machine:clamav?

2006-04-29 Thread jdow
From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jim Stapleton wrote: Anyone have experience with ClamAV? Good, Bad, Ugly? Should I use something else, or is the only good alternative pay/expensive (such as avast)? Am I better at leaving the antivirus stuff to the Windows machine (which has McAfee

Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion

2006-04-30 Thread jdow
From: Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello guys, in bsdnews.com i found this link http://kerneltrap.org/node/6506 and particulary this: I claim that Mach people (and apparently FreeBSD) are incompetent idiots. Playing games with VM is bad. memory copies are _also_ bad,

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-09 Thread jdow
From: David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the response, Robert. I know tmda and such services anger some people. I also find other people who ask me how they can get such a service, only because spam is so difficult to block. I guess it depends on how important email is to you. I would

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-09 Thread jdow
From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: David Banning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for the response, Robert. I know tmda and such services anger some people. I also find other people who ask me how they can get such a service, only because spam is so

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-10 Thread jdow
on my procmail /dev/null rules. (I use fetchmail to grab mail and procmail to feed it to /var/spool/mail/name with stops along the way for SpamAssassin, ClamAv, and some random cleverness.) Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has already successfully delivered the mail

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-10 Thread jdow
From: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has already successfully delivered the mail to you. The fact that you delete the spam before reading makes no difference - the spammer

Re: Spamcop listed - need help to diagnose why

2006-01-10 Thread jdow
From: Danial Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unfortunately, jdow, since your using this setup, the spammer has already successfully delivered the mail to you. The fact that you delete the spam before

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-19 Thread jdow
From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nce writeup. I do have one question at the bottom. I used IPF on FBSD until there was some bug in IPF for 5.x some version that forced me to switch after an upgrade. The bug has been fixed since but I have found no reason to go back. There are two

Re: How to tell if IPF is running?

2006-01-24 Thread jdow
. Thanks. I like your tutorial. That will get me up with it faster. {^_^}Joanne - Original Message - From: Peter N. M. Hansteen [EMAIL PROTECTED] jdow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Which tool would be able to do this sort of thing best and how might it have been done. PF has most

Re: sendmail autoresponder

2006-02-17 Thread jdow
From: Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 2006-02-17 09:29, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You do NOT want to setup an autoresponder like vacation! The FEATURE method that Giorgos explained is the correct way to do it. If your not using sendmail and your MTA cannot issue an

Re: SpamAssassin and country-specific blocking

2006-02-19 Thread jdow
From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I just installed the latest SpamAssassin port and noticed it had country-specific spam filtering as well as spf and ssl support. Does anyone have a howto on getting all this going with an mta in a production environment? I'm not looking for anything

Re: SOLVED: Snow in my Server

2008-12-22 Thread jdow
From: Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, 2008, December 22 12:09 On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Gary Hartl gha...@gmail.com wrote: Well to all who responded to my emails I thank you...I plus I'm sure everyone else enjoyed the responses and to those who might have considered

Re: Snow in my Server

2008-12-22 Thread jdow
But then you have to add in the flood-control port. {^_^} - Original Message - From: lysergius2001 lysergius2...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, 2008, December 22 08:23 Hmm, I'm surprised that no one suggested that you build and install the snow-melt port? On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 4:01 PM,

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-01 Thread jdow
From: Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other stupid problem with the cables. I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also... what can we

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-02 Thread jdow
Precisely how is this different from the basic SpamAssassin capabilities either via MySQL or via user accounts? I use per user BAYES filtering and per user rules and scores on the machine here. {^_^} Joanne - Original Message - From: User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want a

Re: 17 or 19

2006-08-03 Thread jdow
Please excuse me for being picky here. Contrast ratio is not nearly as important as color tracking if color fidelity is important to the user. I'd look for good reviews on the two Somebody who is spending all her time in Eclipse developing non-graphics software a higher contrast ratio might

Re: Spoofers, Spammers Other Bad Guys

2006-08-11 Thread jdow
Well, you can do it with firewall rules. You can do it in the MTA. I'm sure there are other ways to do it as well. This might be a useful tool for doing this without blocking some of the good guys in that part of the world, like Oz and NZ. http://ftp.apnic.net/stats/apnic/delegated-apnic-latest

Re: Superuser, newwannaBe

2006-08-20 Thread jdow
The username you want is root. Give it the root password you entered during install after giving it that username and the login prompt will exhibit magical properties. {^_-} Joanne's feeling silly tonight. Maybe it's bed time. - Original Message - From: jonathoncadena [EMAIL

Re: Time zone isn't displaying right one with 'tzsetup'

2006-08-22 Thread jdow
From: Robert Gabaree [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, I tried to update my new server to the new time zone by running 'tzsetup' and selecting Eastern. However, instead of showing 11:45, it shows 6:45 - 5 hours later. I even tried to do a 'cp /usr/share/ zoneinfo/EST5EDT /etc/localtime but it

Re: freebsd-specific postfix antispam howto

2006-08-29 Thread jdow
From: Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, Does anyone have any information on this? I've googled and have found a lot of information for Linux and even an OpenBSD howto, but i am looking for something freebsd-specific, preferably fbsd6. I'm having issues getting all the services, amavisd-new

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-06 Thread jdow
From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 6, 2006, at 1:06 PM, Hilt, Ian wrote: The hard disk has an on-board controller which answers the ATA IDENTIFY DEVICE command with the hard drive parameters used by the BIOS, assuming that the BIOS is operating in the legacy C/H/S mode rather than the

Re: Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread jdow
From: Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-09 Thread jdow
From: stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9 Sep 2006 14:54:09 - ihilt wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 7:54 pm, jdow wrote: Ok. Maybe the better question is: in either case, C/H/S or LBA mode, where are these parameters stored? They flat out are not stored anywhere

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-09 Thread jdow
From: stheg olloydson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 9 Sep 2006 14:54:09 - ihilt wrote: On Wednesday 06 September 2006 7:54 pm, jdow wrote: Ok. Maybe the better question is: in either case, C/H/S or LBA mode, where are these parameters stored? They flat out are not stored anywhere

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject of discussion. From this discussion and other sources I have learned that CHS, as you say, is arbitrary

Re: Newbie Experience

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Alex de Kruijff [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 11:42:19PM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Too bad you felt it was that horrific. In my experience FreeBSD is sometimes a bit harder than modern Linux distros to install, but are much nicer to maintain and use. I found leaning

Re: Origin of hard drive parameters

2006-09-11 Thread jdow
From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 11 September 2006 2:42 am, jdow wrote: From: Ian Graeme Hilt [EMAIL PROTECTED] May I point out that I was not interested in CHS alone. My focus was the origin of the hard drives parameters i.e. geometry, which is the subject of discussion

Re: spamassassin

2006-09-18 Thread jdow
From: justins [EMAIL PROTECTED] I`ve installed spamassassin rules on my sentmailserver and i am trying to filter my mail in order to pick out some spam. The spamd process is running only it doesn`t add anything to my mail heather so procmail can`t forward it to the caughtspam folder. How do

Re: [OT] spam on freebsd-question@

2006-09-20 Thread jdow
From: Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Sep 20, 2006, Adam Martin wrote: On 2006 Sep 20 , at 08:28, Pietro Cerutti wrote: Hi List, recently (last few days) a lot of spam has begun to arrive on this list could anyone concerned ([EMAIL PROTECTED], ...) check/upgrade the filters?

Re: sendmail + spamassassin

2006-10-08 Thread jdow
From: dick hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] What is the best way to integrate spamassasin with sendmail? MIMEDefang? Best is horridly subjective. I use procmail here with considerable success. However, what works for me is not necessarily ideal for you. Maybe a better description of the intended

Re: imap DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE question

2006-10-15 Thread jdow
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am using imap-uw and so I am familiar with the DON'T DELETE THIS MESSAGE email which stays on the server. I find this annoying, so my question is whether -all- imap servers in the ports have this message that appears. If not, maybe I'll

Re: What is this mean by this term

2007-01-18 Thread jdow
From: Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dak Ghatikachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am confused 2 posters have told me that I am top posting , What do we mean by top-posting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting And those who are pedantic and whiney about it are pathetic twits. {^_-}

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-14 Thread jdow
From: David Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding) I still got soft write errors -- with *either one* of the disks I

Re: dealing with a failing drive

2007-11-14 Thread jdow
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 12:53 On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 09:26:38AM -0800, David Newman wrote: On 11/12/07 8:14 AM, Jerry McAllister wrote: An update: After doing what you suggest (leaving in the good disk, adding a new disk, RAID rebuilding)

Re: Bizzare routing table entry.

2007-08-08 Thread jdow
From: Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] root# route delete 00xc0a80132 [1] 37343 route: writing to routing socket: No such process delete net 0: not in table 0xc0a80132: Command not found. [1] + Exit 1route delete 0 root# route delete 00xc0a80132 [1] 37343

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-21 Thread jdow
From: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all, I am posting this question here because I know there are alot of ISPs using FreeBSD (including me) and am hoping to get feedback, either directly to me or to the list. We are wrestling (as I am sure many are), with spam. Up until now we have been

Re: Anti Spam

2007-04-22 Thread jdow
I'd also add to your remarks, Martin, that the list has people who serve as few as one person to one fellow who is mostly quiet these days who quite literally worked on a setup handling over a million addresses. Martin is one of the stalwarts on the group. (I've mostly been quiet for the last

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread jdow
From: Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have consistently low values in ntp.drift and handle

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread jdow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 07/05/07, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 4, 2007, at 9:10 AM, RW wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2007 11:07:34 -0400 Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sun SPARC machines have good HW clocks, and also some of the newer Macs also seem to have

Re: Time Synchronizing Between Two Servers

2007-05-07 Thread jdow
From: Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 7, 2007, at 5:02 PM, RW wrote: If the time error is zeroed by ntpdate, and there's a drift-file, I don't see that the actual drift value makes much difference. I suspect that any quartz clock is overkill. As someone already mentioned, drift

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-09 Thread jdow
From: Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: On May 9, 2007, at 6:09 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:09PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: I asked somebody directly, but I may as well ask the entire list. I'm looking

Re: Disk Geometry Errors.

2006-05-24 Thread jdow
One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5 controller. Of course the partition data will be wrong. The hidden blocks the two RAID controllers use are probably different and the method of storage for

Re: Disk Geometry Errors.

2006-05-25 Thread jdow
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] One thing that comes to mind, as I read below, is that it appears you setup the drives for RAID 1. Then you transplanted to them to a RAID 5 controller. Of course the partition data will be wrong. The hidden blocks the two RAID controllers use are

Re: Disk Geometry Errors.

2006-05-25 Thread jdow
Usually you have to set RAID configurations in the SATA card's BIOS. Once its BIOS thinks you have a RAID configuration you have a chance of proceeding. (Note that the AGP drivers for that motherboard MAY have problems. The W-s drivers certainly did when we got one here to setup. I finally

Re: release 6.1

2006-05-31 Thread jdow
From: Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 03:49:42PM +0300, mehmet gogebakan wrote: i would like to install 6.1-RELEASE to my computer , configuration is: 128 MB SDRAM LG cdrom 52x 8 MB Grafic card 40 gb hd p3 800 mhz processor azza motherboard could you please tell

Re: i wish to buy your site

2006-06-07 Thread jdow
From: Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sun, June 4, 2006 11:54, Richard Collyer wrote: bill hunt wrote: dear webmaster. My name is Bill Hunt and I'm interested in purchsing your site. the price is nagotiable and I'm willing to pay as much as we can agree on. please let me know if

Re: /bin/cat: Permission denied

2006-06-26 Thread jdow
From: Viktoras Veitas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello. I suddenly cannot run cat command as /bin/cat file appears to be without execute permissions (all other files in /bin directory are with them) and I get /bin/cat: Permission denied error. I had a misfortune to chmod 555 /bin/cat, then my

Re: HDD Geometry Issues

2006-06-28 Thread jdow
From: Sean M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] My HDD is an ST340810A 3.31. The BIOS gives its stats as: Cylinder: 19158 Head:16 Precomp: 0 Landing Zone: 19157 Sector: 255 I found the official doc at http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/specs/ata/st340810a.html although I'm

Re: another newbie

2006-07-02 Thread jdow
From: Andrew Pantyukhin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 7/2/06, Isaac Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to UNIX but know the basics of getting around, writing simple shell scripts, etc. Is there any way to use a short perl program as a shell script? sat64% cat __END__ ./script.pl

Re: Spamassassin very slow

2008-07-23 Thread jdow
That says you are driving spamd into swapping. The two canonical reasons for SpamAssassin to be really slow are dead BL sites or overrunning memory and going into heavy swapping. You made a change to reduce the amount of swapping. Hence you probably have too many children at any one time. Modify

Re: Fetchmail: Error message in maillog

2006-11-04 Thread jdow
From: Gerard Seibert [EMAIL PROTECTED] stuff Not that this is any particular help but is there some special reason you want to run the mail through postfix rather than simply use a tool like procmail straight from fetchmail for your deliveries? That is what I do. This is the magic. I run it as

Re: APC SMART-UPS 750 VA

2006-11-16 Thread jdow
From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Lowell Gilbert Sounds like it might be the same one I'm using quite happily for my machines at home: [from dmesg:] ugen0: APC Back-UPS ES 750 FW:819.z2.D USB FW:z2, rev 1.10/1.06, addr 2 Hmm, first snare. My new cable, 940-0024D, is not listed in the

Re: How to choose an UPS?

2006-11-28 Thread jdow
apcupsd rules. Adam is quite responsive (if he's not traveling) with fixes. USB works for most cases. {^_^}Joanne - Original Message - From: Derek Ragona [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you are going to interface it with the FreeBSD for automatic shutdown, etc. Look at the port for nut in

Re: question on smtp AUTH

2007-01-13 Thread jdow
From: John Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am wondering about the possibility of someone using a working login and password to send spam through my server. So here is my question; That's depressingly common. Look for abandoned or unused accounts like guest/guest. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that